High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in a child case of Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 327-330

  Sugiyama, Nobuyoshi ^a   Hamano, Shin ichiro ^a   Koga, Michiaki ^b  

^a SAITAMA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANGLIOSIDE; GANGLIOSIDE ANTIBODY; GANGLIOSIDE GQ 1B; GANGLIOSIDE GT 1A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; BICKERSTAFF BRAIN STEM ENCEPHALITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENCEPHALITIS; GAIT DISORDER; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN STEM; CHILD; ENCEPHALITIS; GANGLIOSIDES; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MILLER FISHER SYNDROME;

EID: 0038606565     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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